On 2009-09-18, Gregory Margo wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:29:48PM +0800, Steven Woody wrote:
> > I feel happy with ctags except one thing: while I can jump to a
> > function/variable definition, I can not however get a list for all the
> > references to the function/variable? How vim gurus do it?
>
>
> I tend to use a big blunt instrument: grep. It works on any
> language, not the limited few that cscope/id-utils/global support.
> And it works on any string, not just functions/variables.
>
> Here are two scripts/mappings from my .vimrc that I use all the time.
> The "_lg" mapping creates a new buffer with the matches, and
> the "_le" mapping opens the appropriate file from a given match.
Are you aware of vim's built-in :grep command?
:help :grep
For jumping to particular lines in files from a <file name>:<line
number> pair in a buffer there are:
:help CTRL-W_F
:help gF
> It is limited to grepping from the current directory downward, but I
> generally always work from the top level of a project.
To have grep search recursively through a directory hierarchy, just
use the -r or -R option. Then you can easily specify the top-level
directory and whether or not you want to search recursively. The
--include and --exclude options can also help narrow your search if
your directories contain a mix of file types.
HTH,
Gary
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